Rationale and design of the European Computerized Human Brain Database System

Author

Fredriksson, Jesper ; Roland, Per ; Svensson, Per

Author_Institution

Dept. of Numerical Anal. & Comput. Sci., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

1999

fDate

36373

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

157

Abstract

The European Computerized Human Brain Database (ECHBD) is an innovative approach to neuroscience, where state-of-the-art database technology has been utilised for building a system for meta-research. Meta-research here refers to research on 3D brain images, obtained from various neuroimaging techniques. The system is built on top of the RASDAMAN rasterdata manager and the object-oriented DBMS O₂. A client/server interface allows access to the database over the Internet. The system will be open for use by the ECHBD project partners in July 1999. The ECHBD system focuses on ease of use, featuring visual navigation and query specification. We discuss basic data management problems in experimental neuroscience and describe how the ECHBD system is designed to address these problems

Keywords

biomedical imaging; client-server systems; medical information systems; neurophysiology; object-oriented databases; user interfaces; visual databases; 3D brain images; ECHBD system; European Computerized Human Brain Database System; Internet; RASDAMAN rasterdata manager; client/server interface; data management problems; experimental neuroscience; meta-research; neuroimaging techniques; object-oriented DBMS O₂; query specification; state-of-the-art database technology; visual navigation; Brain; Buildings; Humans; Image databases; Neuroimaging; Neuroscience; Object oriented databases; Spatial databases; Visual databases; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 1999. Eleventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cleveland, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0046-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSDM.1999.787630

Filename

787630